Zündel was a victim, not a perpetrator or
proponent of violence, Lindsay told the court
during his closing statement.

There is no public case that Zündel
inspired violence from his followers, who were
"older German senior citizens interested in whether
the Holocaust happened," Lindsay said, adding that
Zündel's residence had been vandalized over
the years.

Most of the case has
been tried in secret, said Lindsay, who
described the "non-existent" public case as "an
ocean of innuendo accusing Mr. Zündel of
influencing and inspiring others to acts of
violence and terrorism."

Lindsay also attacked the Crown's comparison of
Zündel to Osama bin Laden as
sensationalization designed to compensate for a
lack of evidence.

He noted the Crown had called no witnesses,
presented instead hundreds of pages of
"second-hand, third-hand and even fourth-hand
hearsay evidence."

On Tuesday, federal prosecutor Donald
MacIntosh argued that Zündel's bid to
avoid deportation to Germany relies on the
viewpoint of a motley crew of white-power advocates
and racist skinheads who say he is a spent
force.

MacIntosh warned Blais that giving Zündel's
defence credence would "be contrary not only to all
the jurisprudence, but would bring the
administration of justice into disrepute."

Blais must decide whether it was reasonable for
the federal justice minister and minister of
immigration to invoke a rarely used security
certificate to deport Zündel as a threat to
national security.

Zündel, who has lived in Canada since 1958,
fled to Tennessee to be with his wife prior to a
January 2002 ruling by the Canadian Human Rights
Commission that a website he controlled spread
anti-Semitic messages.